National Republican., 1887-09-01
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE CHECKERED CAREER OF TIMOTHY
TANGLE ESQ. BY EDWARD /. DARLING.
New York Frank f. Lowell & Co., SO Elm
street. % cents. Publishers.

IANGLE, ESQ. By EDWARD DARLING
New York Frank +. Lowell & Co., SO Elm
street. % cents. Publishers.
We have read the niuety-one pages Of
this volume with full attention, and de.
rived much amusement. The author evi
IDENTIFY understands his subject, "Society,"
and equally clear is II that he is no adorer
within that charmed circle. Here ana
there throughout the story quiet humor
glides In, just when and where least to be
expected, and satire often throws her sharp
and sudden dart, which never fails to strike
deeply, too.
Most interesting to us OF the grand
metropolis, all of us, will be the hero's
coming hither, where he receives in the
State Department "a diplomatic trust with
no work and large pay" He becomes as
sistant to the assistant librarian, his sole
duty being "to gaze out Of the middle south
window on the majestic Potomi &c
and It's verdant flats. / watched
the flats, salary 800 year. Having
become accustomed TO my official life re.
solved to rush madly into the vortex OF So
ciety. I was boarding at the time In quiet
and respectable looking house on k street,
which was kept by southern lady named
Neland, who, before the war, had been heir
ess to a boundless plantation and number
less slaves, but through that cruel
struggle she had been reduced
and-there's no use OF my repeating that
story made familiar to every one who has
ever stopped at Washington boarding
house. Mrs. Noland--she was Mrs, had
been made one several times-was q widow.
Her first husband had been shot down
facing the foe, but in some mysterious
manner the bullet hit him In
the back, and her second help.
mate, who had married her to pay board
bill, jumped from third story window In a
fit of temporary insanity occ isioned, so she
said, by her refusal to give him receipt"
To escape the delicate attentions of this
widow, who intimated In ghoulishly
jocular manner that she would like to pit
her longevity against mine I'm the matri-
mopial arena" Timothy Tangle, Esq, goes
to hotel where diplomats most do con-
gregate. His experience here is OF n conf
cal character. Soon he attends the recep.
tion Of u CONT. 1t Is graphically described.
Timothy's supreme admiration is the cor
| pulent doorkeeper, who was the only one
really glad to see him, and the most perfect
| gentleman of them all.
After awhile a ''german,n where he eX-
pected ''inexhaustible lager beer and
plenteous sweitzer kaise," but was dlsap-
pointed; yet he saw many ladies there,
and much OF them. "There was one
mortified, and almost drove me from
the festive sceDe-the costumes of the
ladies. 1t seemed as though all their dresses
had slipped down, and the bands of ribbon
which should have been around their necks
had stopped at their waists, while the bot
tom fiounce, which should have been at
their heels, dragged yards behind them on
the floor. wanted to rush forth from my
seclusion and request them to adjust their
apparel, but my modesty forbade such an
action, for IL a lady chooses to expose her
person to the public, no gentl .man should
take the indelicate liberty OF interfering
He might close his eyes, or turn his back,
then, perhaps, they would dress them.
selves.n
Numerous adventures follow.
The book is decidedly original. Keen
observation ia manifest throughout. People
outside Of "society" will read 1t to learn OF
the mysteries existing within, and 'societyn
will read 1t to see how itself Is represented.
A mutual friend of ours and OF the
author informs us that Mr.. Darling was
deeply attached to the late Gen VIM Nc
kee Dunn, U.S A., to whom this volume
Is dedicated, and on recent visit to
Washington, finding his aged companion
rather feeble and somewhat despondent,
said, general, when go back to New
York will write book and send 1t to you,
which will make you laugh" He kept his
promise, as far as the production of the
volume, but, .uDhappily, on the day of its
issue, July "a, the general died.
The author, over sensitive, now feels re-
gret on account Of the light manner OF the
dedication. As the intention was perfectly
correct, and even highly commeniable, he
is surely In no degree to be blamed.
THE CURRENT. August 20. 10 cents: 81 n
year. Chicago: 190l25 La Sallo street,
Publishers.
The stories are far superior to the poems,
and SO generally. or the former we would
particularize "spoon-River Dan," "a Par
asol Episode" and "Merze." or the lat
ter-nothing. "Comment," as usual,
abounds In interest and sense.